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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKLIN B. KENDALL, OF TUMWATER, \VASHINGTON TERRITORY.

PRIVY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,776, dated December25, 1883.

Application filed May 28, 1883.

To wZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANKLIN B. KENDALL,acitizen of the United States, residing in Tumwater, in the county ofThurston and Territory of WVashington, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in the Construction of Odorless Privies, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings and letters of reference marked thereon, inwhich- Figure l is a perspective view of my improved odorless privy, andFig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the same.

Similar letters indicate like parts in both figures.

My invention relates to improvements in odorless privies; and itconsists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts, ashereinafter morefully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, 13 represents a box or case having its backside, 13, open to receive or remove the excrement-vessel A, and

provided 011 its upper face with the seat-hole H, and on its sides nearits upper edges with grooves-for the reception of a slide, R, providedon its lower face with a packing, R. The bottom of the case is providedwith legs or casters 0 G, for supporting it, and also with a slot, a,which receives a platform, P, which moves up and down'in the slot a, andhaving ears P at its ends, which work up and down in the slots at in theopposite sides of the box B.

(No model.)

holes in the upper face of the box B, and also through threaded holes inthe ears 1? P of the platform, by means of which the platform P and theexcrement-vessel A, resting thereon, can be raised and lowered asdesired. In practice the screws S are partly unscrewed, the slide R ispartially withdrawn, and the operator seated on the hole H deposits hisexcrement in the vessel. When he has finished, the slide R is shoved in,the screws S tightened, raising the platform P, and with it the vesselA, its upper edge coming in contact with the packing R of the slide R,and thus preventing the escape of the offensive odors from theexcrement.

The vessel A can be removed, when desired, from the box B by looseningthe screws S, causing the platform P to descend, when the handle H ofthe vessel can be seized and the vessel removed from the box.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a box provided with a seat-hole in its upperface and a slot in its bottom, of an excrementvessel, a platformsupporting said vessel, a slide covering said vessel, and means,substantially as described, for operating said platform, as set forth.

2. The combination, with a box, B, open at its rear end, and providedwith a seat-hole, H, in its upper face, and slots a a in its bottomface, and longitudinal sides, of the excrementvessel A, having a handle,H, platform P, having ears P board P, screws S, and slide R, having apacking, R, on its lower face, substantially as shown and described.

FRANKLIN B. KENDALL.

Vitnesses:

H. F. BROWN, W. H. LAVITT.

